Crib Recall Information:

WASHINGTON – More than 2.1 million drop-side cribs by Stork Craft Manufacturing are being recalled, the biggest crib recall in U.S history, following reports of four infant suffocations. The Consumer Product Safety Commission said late Monday the recall involves 1.2 million cribs in the United States and almost 1 million in Canada, where Stork Craft is based. Sales of the cribs being recalled go back to 1993. Nearly 150,000 of the cribs carry the Fisher-Price logo. The CPSC said it is aware of four infants who suffocated in the drop-side cribs, which have a side that moves up and down to allow parents to lift children from the cribs more easily. The agency also said there have been 110 incidents of drop-sides detaching from the cribs. The Stork Craft cribs have had problems with their hardware, which can break, deform or become missing after years. CPSC said there can also be problems with assembly mistakes by the crib owner. These problems can cause the drop-side to detach, creating a dangerous space between the drop-side and the crib mattress, where a child can become trapped. The commission is urging parents to stop using the cribs until receiving a free repair kit from Stork Craft. The kit will convert the drop-side into a fixed side. The cribs, which were manufactured and distributed between January 1993 and October 2009, were sold at major retailers including BJ’s Wholesale Club, Sears and Wal-Mart stores and online through Target and Costco. They sold for between $100 and $400, and were made in Canada, China and Indonesia. Calls to Stork Craft were not immediately returned. This is the second big recall this year for the company. It recalled about 500,000 cribs in January because of problems with the metal brackets that support the mattress. Some of the same models in the earlier recall were also part of Monday’s announcement, CPSC said. Consumer advocates have complained for years about drop-side cribs. More than 5 million of them have been recalled over the past two years alone — recalls that were associated with the deaths of a dozen young children. ASTM International, an organization that sets voluntary industry safety standards for everything from toys to the steel used in commercial buildings, approved a new standard last week that requires four immovable, or fixed, sides for full-size cribs — essentially eliminating the manufacture of drop-side cribs. CPSC is also considering new rules for making cribs safer and could adopt the ASTM voluntary standard as a mandatory one, outright banning the cribs. Nancy Cowles, executive director of Chicago-based Kids In Danger, said the agency must include more rigorous testing for crib durability. “Parents should be able to trust that their child is safe in their crib,” said Cowles. Toys”R”Us started phasing out drop-side cribs earlier this year and will no longer carry them next month. In the Stork Craft recall, the manufacture date, model number, crib name, country of origin, and the firm’s name, address and contact information are located on the assembly instruction sheet attached to the mattress support board. The firm’s insignia “storkcraft baby” or “storkling” is inscribed on the drop-side teething rail of some cribs. Consumers can contact the company, 877-274-0277, to order the free repair kit, or log on to http://www.storkcraft.com.

Family Fun Calendar

Friday

A Night of Comedy with Tim Hawkins

Date: Nov. 20th

Time: 7:30pm, doors open at 6:30

For more information: www.bighouseyouthoutreach.com

All proceeds will go to benefit Big House Youth Outreach

Saturday

DaySpring Presents: Happy Birthday Jesus at LifeWay Christian Stores

Date: Nov. 21st Time: 11:00—1:00

This will be a free event. Meet the Really Wooly Characters. There will be prizes and crafts as well.

The 17th Annual Lights of the Ozarks Parade

Date: Nov. 21st

Time: 6:15 pm

For more information: www.accessfayetteville.org

For more community events check out KLRC’s community calendar.

For reviews of today’s featured movie, The Blind Side, or others movies now showing: www.pluggedinonline.com

Here is the article that we talked about this morning with Dr. Dan.

Do you agree?

Satan Hates Sprinkles

 My dad is famous for his optimism; as far as most people are concerned he is completely candy-coated.

He lives out James 1:2 unlike anyone I have ever met. “Consider it pure joy my brothers whenever you face trials of many kinds.” That’s my dad, joy in the face of trial.

When I was growing up my siblings and I never had problems–we had opportunities. We didn’t have hardships–we learned lessons. We were always “better than we deserved”, “at an all time high” and super “f-a-n-t-a-s-t-i-c”!

Even when joy didn’t make sense.

As a young girl I remember a time when my dad ran for School Board re-election. I felt nervous about the outcome of the race and I recall asking my dad what he would do if he lost. He smiled his usual smile and laughed his usual laugh then said, “If I lose, you and I will go out for hot-fudge sundaes.”

Before I was old enough to appreciate the spiritual application, I remembered how odd it was to celebrate losing. After all, nothing screams defeat like confetti and balloons. Or does it?

Celebration in the midst of struggle is odd for our human nature because it can’t be attained without God. It can often be the only weapon we have that keeps us from falling. Our common enemy has come to “kill, steal and destroy but Christ has come to give us abundant life” John 10:10.

Praise and thankfulness throw a big chink in the chain Satan specially designed to keep us down and out.

My dad ended up losing the re-election that year, and he could have gotten angry. He could have demanded a recount. He could have scorned his opponent and vented his frustration. He could have wallowed, but he would have promptly chained himself in bitterness.

Instead he kept his word and we went out for ice cream. In this particular situation I watched my dad rejoice rather than rant, and thanks to my dad, the joy of the Lord tastes a lot like sundaes with sprinkles on top.

by Ginny Martyn

If you would like to partner with Dalit Freedom Network to help end slavery you can find more information here.

http://www.samaritanspurse.org/

OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD NWA Drop-Off Sites

BENTON COUNTY

Calvary Chapel in the Ozarks

2100 W Perry Rd

Rogers, AR 72758

Phone: (800) 383-0896

Hours: Mon – Sat: 9:00am – 2:00pm Sun: 1:00pm – 5:00pm Mon: 9:00am – 5:00pm

Skia Store

3301 South Walton Blvd

Bentonville, AR 72712

Phone: (800) 383-0896

Hours: Mon – Thurs: 7:00am – 10:00pm Fri: 7:00am – 11:00pm Sat: 8:00am – 11:00pm Sun: 1:00pm – 9:00pm

First Baptist Church Centerton

351 W Centerton Blvd

Centerton, AR 72719

Phone: (800) 383-0896

Hours: Mon – Tues: 8:30am – 4:30pm Wed – Thurs: 8:30am – 7:30pm Fri : 8:30am – 4:30pm Sat: 8:30am – 2:30pm Sun: 8:30am – 12:00noon, 5:30pm – 7:00pm 

Bella Vista Baptist Church

50 E Lancashire Blvd

Bella Vista, AR 72714

Phone: (800) 383-0896 Hours: Mon – Fri: 2:00pm – 6:00pm Sat: 9:00am- 1:00pm Sun: 12:00pm – 2:00pm Mon: 9:30am – 10:30am

WASHINGTON COUNTY

Calvary Fellowship

2418 N Gregg Ave #7

Fayetteville, AR 72703

Phone: (800) 383-0896

Hours: Suites #7 and #8 Mon – Fri: 4:00pm – 7:00pm Sat – Sun: 10:00am – 12:00noon

Ridgeview Baptist Church

1850 E Huntsville Rd

Fayetteville, AR 72701

Phone: (800) 383-0896

Hours: Mon – Tues: 9:30am – 11:00am Wed: 6:00pm – 8:00pm Thurs: 9:30am – 11:00am Fri: 4:00pm – 6:00pm Sat: 8:00am – 11:00am Sun: 1:00pm – 3:00pm Mon: 8:00am – 9:00am

CARROLL COUNTY

Calvary Chapel of Eureka Springs

5820 Hwy 62 W

Eureka Springs, AR 72632

Phone: (800) 383-0896

Hours: Mon – Sat: 8:00am – 11:00am Sun: 12:00pm – 2:00pm Mon: 9:00am – 12:00noon

Family Fun Calendar

Friday & Saturday

Arts & Craft Fair

Date: Nov 13^th & 14^th

Time: all day

Location: Stilwell National Guard W. Pine & 5^th Streets, Stilwell OK

The Stilwell Public Library is hosting an arts & craft fair to raise money for a children’s wing in the library.

Saturday

Good Neighbor Food Drive at Walmart stores

Date: Nov 14^th

Time: All day

For more information: www.goodneighborfooddrive.org

Nine Walmart stores in Benton County, Springdale, and Jane, MO on November 14 

Good Neighbor Food Drive started in 2008 and is an organization who is working with community pantries to end hunger.  To date it has raised over 65,000 pounds of food for families in Northwest Arkansas. 

For more community events check out KLRC’s community calendar.

For reviews of today’s featured movie, 2012, or others movies now showing: www.pluggedinonline.com

 The first line of Matt Maher’s new song says “I woke up in darkness”. The first three words are my reality today. I woke up. The funny thing is… I didn’t know I was asleep.

Maybe it was a defense mechanism. Whatever the cause, I was sleeping. I had withdrawn from the world of sunshine to a place of darkness, a place of stillness, a place of quiet solitude.

Circumstances and situations piled on me suffocating me from the reality of life. Depression, sadness, anger and frustration blanketed me from the world of the living. In quietness I existed. Living, but not alive.

That’s when it happened. He called to me. I was lost so deep in my slumber that I didn’t hear His voice at first. Then He shouted. And the deafness that had overtaken me was broken. Light penetrated through the despair, and for the first time in a long time I breathed.

There is nothing so sweet as waking up, as breathing in and breathing out, as being alive, of being loved.

 

If you’d like more information on the stroller recall you can call 877-688-2326 or visit the web-site at www.maclaren.us/recall

Thanks so much Jay from Big House Youth Outreach for visiting with us today. If you’d like more information on Big House visit their web-site.

This weekend I got a chance to go visit our friends at Saving Grace. A few months ago I was there listening to Becky share her vision of making Saving Grace a home. Yesterday I got to see the results of their hard work. Thought you might enjoy some before and after pics!

Bedroom

Another bedroom

Bathroom before

After!

One of the living areas... before

What a transformation!

 If you’d like more information about Saving Grace, you can visit their web-site here.

This morning was amazing! I am totally loving Pay it Forward!!!

Its made me think of a poem that hung in my Noni’s (grandma) house. I memorized it as a little girl. As a girl I thought the words were beautiful. Today I experienced them for myself. It truly is better to give!

Let’s Pay it Forward today!

Keri

This old Chinese Proverb

If practiced each day

Would change the whole world

In a wonderful way

Its truth is so simple

It’s so easy to do

It works every time

 And successfully too

For you can’t do a kindness

Without a reward

Not in silver nor gold

But in Joy from the Lord

You can’t light a candle

To show others the way

Without feeling the warmth

Of that bright little ray

And you can’t pluck a rose

All fragrant with dew

Without part of its fragrance

Remaining with you

Helen Steiner Rice